As you all may know we have been nominated for the Edublog Awards 2009. We are very honoured because the blogs that have been nominated with us were just FANTASTIC! We would like to congratulate the winners for their great job. Even though we haven’t won, we are extremely happy for having taking part in the awards and also because we haven’t done that bad in the final results. We are in position 6th. A big thank to all those who have supported us: teachers, students, parents, friends and especially to Eduardo Peirano (@emapey) and Lorena Zanola (@enpatagoniasur) for their great motivation and hard work.

There are lots of excellent blogs nominated with us. You may have a look at all of them here. Select your favorite class blog from the list and click Vote OR scroll down the page to check out all blogs nominated in this category!

A big thank to all those who have motivated us to start and continue with this blog, and especially to Eduardo Peirano (@emapey), who was the person who nominated us for the contest. Classes have ended here in Argentina so we will continue working in this blog with the students in March, after a reinvigorating summer holiday. We all deserve it!

Hello again my dear students! This week in class we have been talking about dreams, nightmares, daydreaming. Today we have seen two scenes from the film “The Unborn” and we have discussed about nightmares. If you are curious about the film, here you can see the trailer. If you happen to watch the movie, please tell us your opinion.

So today we will have a new contest. This time please tell us one of your dreams. It can be funny, scary, strange, or just a dream you like. Next week we will vote on the best dream. You can use these questions as a guide…

Hi dear all,
In class we’ve been talking about music so… why not creating our own playlist to be played in class while we are doing some grammar exercises? I’m sure it will be great fun. The idea is that you share in the comment section a link to a you tube video of your favourite song. It would be better if it is in English. You can also tell us:
– Why do you like that song?
– Who is the singer?
– Who is the songwriter?
– What’s the story behind the song (if there’s any)?
– What do you know about the singer or band?
and whatever you’d like to share. Looking forward to your songs. I’d love to listen to them.

Well, we all know that English is a crazy language. Why don’t they follow a rule and that’s it? Here you have a funny poem about the inconsistencies of irregular verbs and at the bottom you will find lots of exercises to revise for Tuesday’s test.

Verbs is Funny

A boy who swims may say he swum,
But milk is skimmed and seldom skum,
And nails you trim; they are not trum.

When words you speak, these words are spoken,
But a nose is tweaked and can’t be twoken.
And what you seek is seldom soken.

If we forget, then we’ve forgotten,
But things we wet are never wotten,
And houses let cannot be lotten.

The things one sells are always sold,
But fog dispelled are not dispold,
And what you smell is never smold.

When young, a top you oft saw spun,
But did you see a grin ever grun,
Or a potato neatly skun?

Hope you like it…And here comes the serious work. Remember that the topics for the test are: was/ were and Past Simple: regular and irregular verbs (affirmative, negative and interrogative). I will leave a list of links to some online exercises for you to revise: